1<\/sup>But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.<\/span> <\/p>\n